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Being Nibbled By The Homeschooling Bug

June 24, 2011

I keep starting blog posts and then not writing them because OMFG you would not believe how much writing I do all day. I mean, you would, because I post it all to the Internets and share it with you on the Twitter and like that. But it turns out that even I can become [...]

Tagged as: homeschooling, parenting, rio, serena, writing

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First Haircut!

January 14, 2011

So long to those golden curls. Serena asked to have her hair cut, and I had to admit that it was becoming prone to unbrushable tangles. By which I mean dreadlocks. Which are cute, but not in the adorable way her ringlets were. So if she wanted them gone, gone they are. I sort of [...]

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Dancing To the End of Love

November 16, 2010

My baby and I are totally breaking up. I know I’ve mentioned this a few times before, but I didn’t have the guts to come right out and say it: our honeymoon is ending, and we will love each other in a different, more complicated way on the other side of her third year. That [...]

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The Zebra and the Train: A Tale of Two Costumes

October 29, 2010

A week or so ago, Serena announced she wanted to be a zebra for Halloween. I smiled, nodded, thought she’d make a cute zebra, and promptly forgot about it. Until tonight, after dinner, when she smiled sweetly at me and said, “Mommy! Tonight while I am sleeping, I want you to sew a zebra costume [...]

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The Power of “NO”: Lessons From My 3-year-old

October 26, 2010

Serena is deep in the threes. Anyone who’s been there knows what that means: “NO! I DO IT MYSELF!” Rio going through this phase was one of the hardest years of my life: we fought bitterly, more days than not. Even at the time, it seemed insane. How could I be so angry, and so [...]

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Some Imaginary Friends are Stinky

August 3, 2010

Staggering to the shower this morning, Serena stopped me in the hall outside the bathroom door. “Kayleigh and Jesi are in there, Mama,” she said. “Who are Kayleigh and Jesi?” “Kayleigh is my friend and Jesi is Rio’s friend.” Rio, from the bedroom, joins the conversation. “You can go in there if you want, Mama, [...]

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Baby’s First Tarot Reading

July 27, 2010

Serena got into my Beautiful Tarot app on my iPhone yesterday and figured out how to pull the cards. I love Tarot. I love this Tarot app. I use it just about daily. My only wish is that future version include a Thoth tarot. I’m never sure I think it “works”, since there are no [...]

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Happy 3rd Birthday, Serena Rose!

July 12, 2010

My baby is three. Her birthday was actually on Friday, July 9, which is also the Argentine independence day. We spent the whole day having a BBQ in the backyard. Argentine’s are simply mad about BBQ. They all (at least, all the affluent houses in this neighborhood), have these huge hand-built brick BBQ ovens in [...]

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Something Borrowed

June 29, 2010

A friend of ours often uses a wheelchair, but can also get around on crutches and sometimes on her own two feet (one of which is made from Science!). This weekend we were camping and another friend injured her knee. She borrowed the chair for a bit. Serena approached her, carrying a sword with another [...]

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That’s Sweet

June 25, 2010

Yesterday, I was getting changed while Serena played on the bed nearby. I took my shirt off and she said, “Mama! Your boobies! I can see your boobies! And…(long, dramatic, awestruck pause) your nibbles!” We’re in the midst of a too-slow-for-me and too-fast-for-her weaning process, so my breasts have recently become an even more interesting [...]